Computer System Research Group Requests for
Comments. (Informal memoranda of the Project MAC/LCS
Computer Systems Research Group. CSR-RFCs are not to be confused
with the similarly-identified RFCs of the Internet
Engineering Task Force.)
Links identified as "Scanned version in PDF" are
in Portable Document Format (requires Adobe
Reader) courtesy of Roger Roach, Olin Sibert, and the
Multics History Project.
- CSR-RFC-3: Bibliographies on Selected Systems.
(With Michael D. Schroeder), February 1, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-5: Repaired security bugs in Multics.
February 7, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
Scan & OCR of paper original: PDF.
- CSR-RFC-19: Measurements of Hardware Speed of the
6180. May 4, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-20: 645/6180 Performance Comparison
Tests. (With Roger A. Roach), May 17, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-34: Some System Certification Tasks.
September 5, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-35: The "Principle of Least Privilege" and
Multics.
February 14, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-39: A CPU Speed Measurement Tool.
October 9, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-46: Some Multics security holes which were
closed by 6180 hardware. (With Philippe A. Janson and
Douglas H. Hunt), February 7, 1973.
Scanned version in PDF.
Scan & OCR of paper original: PDF.
- CSR-RFC-47: Some recently repaired security holes in
Multics. (With Douglas H. Hunt), 28 January 1974.
Scanned version in PDF.
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- CSR-RFC-77: Some Comments on the NBS Standard
Encryption Algorithm.
May 23, 1975.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-88: Position Note on New Directions for
Operating Systems.
October 14, 1975.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-89: A Note on Lipner's Comment on the
Confinement Problem.
October 16, 1975.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-103: Measurements of USL Multics.
(With David D. Clark), December 1, 1975.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-104: Some Observations about the
Hewlett-Packard 2640A Display Terminal.
January 19, 1976.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-106: On the Modeling of Paging
Algorithms. February 13, 1976.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-121: Problems of Office Automation, or Why We
Don't Use Multics for Typing Important Documents.
July 12, 1976.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-125: Technical Possibilities and Problems in
Protecting Data in Computer Systems.
September 30, 1976
Scan and OCR of preprint: PDF.
- CSR-RFC-128: Discussions on "Distributed System"
Research.
October 21, 1976.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-140: The Multics Kernel Design Project
(Draft).
(With Michael D. Schroeder and David D. Clark),
March 31, 1977.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-148: On Digital Signatures.
August 30, 1977.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-185: End-to-End arguments in system
design.
April 17, 1980.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-197: Trip Report, August 15 - September 1,
1980.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-203: Comments on the standard Ethernet,
November 25, 1980.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-205: Trip Report: INRIA Workshop on Distributed
Systems and Second International Conference on Distributed
Systems, Verailles, April 6-10-1981.
(With David P. Reed), April 15, 1981.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-208: Hazards of file encryption.
May 27, 1981.
Scanned version in PDF.
In 1998, Kevin E. Fu kindly OCR'ed this paper and rendered it as
a webpage.
- CSR-RFC-209: Trip Report: Europe 8 June - 25 June,
1981. June 29, 1981.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-209a: Trip Report: 7th Data Communications
Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico, October, 1981.
November 2, 1981.
Scanned version in PDF.
- CSR-RFC-222: Trip Report: IFIP International Symposium
on Local Computer Networks.
RFC 222, April 28, 1982.
Scanned version in PDF.